הקלסיקה הנועזת והחדשנית, "המטריות של שרבורג", היתה מועמדת לאוסקר וזכתה בפרסים יוקרתיים רבים.זוהי מחווה אוהבת למיוזיקלים ההוליוודיים המובאת בסגנון המלודרמה הצרפתית.הסרט צולם בשרבורג, צרפת, באמצעי צילום יצירתיים תוך שימוש בצבעים וטקסטורות מרהיבות וייחודי גם במובן שכל מילה בו מושרת.קתרין דנב היא ג'נבייב היפהפייה, בת ה-16 וכשהיא מתאהבת בגאי (נינו קסטלנובו), המכונאי המקומי המקסים, עולמות מתנגשים.הזוג הצעיר ניצב בפני מכשולים רבים, כמו אמא המסתייגת של ג'נבייב, הריון לא צפוי והתגייסותו לצבא של גאי.שמחה ומלנכוליה שזורים יחדיו לכל אורך הסרט, המתאר את ארעיותה של האהבה והתמדתה של החיבה.
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
דלפין וסולאנז` הינן תאומות בנות 25, יפות תואר ושנונות. דלפין הבלונדינית נותנת שיעורי ריקוד וסולנאז` מלמדת סולפז`. השתיים מרחפות בענני עולם המוזיקה וחולמות למצוא את האהבה הגדולה מעבר לפינה. אלא שאז מגיע לעיר יריד נודד ואנשיו פוקדים את הבר שמנהלת אמן של התאומות. בעוד היריד מתארגן, מלח חולמני מחפש את האידיאל הנשי שלו.סרט מוסיקלי מרהיב שהוא הומאג` למחזות הזמר האמריקאים של שנות השלושים. שפת הסרט: צרפתית.
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by the death, and wait for it by chasing women and drinking. He first tries to seduce her, but is impressed by her and gives up. But Aurore felt in love with him, and tries not to look as inacessible. A romantic drama, with dispair, cynism, disgust for life and love.
Cellist Gaspard is living in a big house in the country with his son and three nieces. He likes being quiet. One day, his modest car bumps into a Rolls-Royce, driven by Felicia, a young, beautiful, wealthy and temperamental woman. And she knows it. She is very angry at him because he seems not to be under her charm. She decides to seduce him, but Gaspard did not feel like letting his life being invaded by such a woman.
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are arrested for stealing eggs. Marianne is one of the followers, and she and Paul go to a remote island to live off seaweed and vegetation, but a development company moves in to wreck the paradise. Paul is brokenhearted when Mariane goes off with one of the greedy developers in this symbolic film that decries the allure of the material world.
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.